Newslinks for Friday 15th July 2016

May dismantles the Cameroon order

“Theresa May was hailed last night after appointing a Cabinet containing more State-educated ministers than at any time in Tory Party history. The new Prime Minister brushed aside the David Cameron regime in less than a day. Only 30 per cent of her top-rank ministers went to private schools – the lowest proportion for a new Cabinet since Labour PM Clement Attlee’s ministers in 1945.” – Daily Mail

Philip Collins: May has trimmed too much talent from her Cabinet

“The people leaving are better than the people coming in. When Gordon Brown formed his first cabinet there was a distinctly second-string feel to it. When you clear out those who have been prominent in your predecessor’s court you also clear out some of the best people. They weren’t there just by accident and a government shorn of Cameron, Osborne and Gove is a less talented government than the one which went before.” – The Times (£)

It makes perfect sense: she wants to be in charge – Fraser Nelson, Daily Telegraph

Ministers 1) Davis is Britain’s new Mr Brexit

“Mr Davis (pictured) is a prominent Tory Eurosceptic and Leave campaigner who was a rather dogmatic minister for Europe in John Major’s government in the 1990s. On Monday, he set out his views on how the Brexit negotiations should proceed in a long article on the Conservative Home website. I imagine government officials across Europe will be poring over this piece today.” – FT

Ministers 2) Chancellor hints at plan to spend his way through Brexit

“Philip Hammond yesterday dropped a heavy hint that the Government was prepared to borrow billions of pounds extra to help the economy adjust to the ‘shock’ of Brexit. The new Chancellor said the extra cash could be ploughed into infrastructure projects in a sharp change of course from the George Osborne years.” – Daily Mail

Ministers 3) Johnson booed at French embassy

“Boris Johnson was booed this afternoon at the French ambassador’s residence despite singing La Marseillaise at a reception to celebrate Bastille Day. Making his first public appearance as British Foreign Secretary in London, a small section of the French and British crowd at the ambassador’s residence heckled Johnson as he attempted to make a speech.” – Daily Mail

Ministers 4) Greening brings a comprehensive viewpoint to Education

“Justine Greening becomes the first education secretary to have been wholly taught at a comprehensive school. She takes on an enlarged department from Nicky Morgan, who was sacked in the reshuffle. The Department for Education will now also be responsible for higher education, with the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) disbanded.” – The Times (£)

Half the women who resigned from the Shadow Cabinet have been threatened

“Half of the female shadow cabinet ministers who resigned over Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership have faced death threats or warnings of violent attack, The Telegraph has learned. Six of the dozen senior women who stepped down in the last month have faced threats of physical attack or violence, while many of the others have received intimidating messages online.” – Daily Telegraph

John Harris: The stench of death hangs over Labour

“All of which adds to the reek of death, and the sense that this collapse into acrimony is of a piece with Labour’s estrangement from its traditional working-class base, the increasing dominance of a metropolitan hardcore, and the clear impression of unstoppable decline. Corbyn might be bereft of responses to all this, but neither Eagle nor Owen Smith have so far come up with any convincing answers… At this rate one or both of them will lose, and God only knows what Labour will turn into: a dystopia of intolerance, in all likelihood, from which anyone with any self-respect will walk away.” – The Guardian

At least 84 dead in Nice terror attack

“At least 84 people have been killed and more than 50 injured after a 25-tonne lorry mowed down crowds for more than a mile before the driver got out and sprayed fleeing revellers with bullets as terror struck Bastille Day celebrations on the French Riviera.” – Daily Mail

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